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Guardian Australias weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales Top of the weekend to you all. Ive been drifting through the week in post-referendum limbo, dreading where the discourse might go from here. On the plus side, the Paul McCartney shows are reportedly awash with love. So lets

I applied for the quiz show to get bragging rights over my pub quiz teammates. Then I found myself sweating in the famous chair. What had I done? In all honesty, I have no idea why I decided to go on Mastermind. I love pub quizzes, sure, and Im good at them. Pre-Covid, I was

Richard Burton died in August 1984 at the age of 58, shortly before the premiere of Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which he gave his best performance for more than a decade as Orwell's totalitarian apparatchik O'Brien. His diaries cover some 44 years, from his early second world war schooldays in south Wales to the spring of

As front moves north to batter UK coasts, Storm Aline brings more heavy rain and strong winds to Iberian peninsula Although Storm Babet has been battering the coasts of the UK during the second half of this week, it had already left behind a trail of destruction across Portugal as it developed out in the

Lee Collinson was the hard-working, blues-obsessed frontman of Dr Feelgood. But it was his punk attitude that was the secret to the success of the band Lee Brilleaux died two days after Kurt Cobain, on 7 April 1994, at the age of 41. To blokes of a certain vintage playing in bands above pubs, he